Today’s mini-crisis hinges around my January meeting on
diversity. The IP Lady Minister wants to
see the agenda so that she can write her speech. I have not done an agenda.
I can either confess to being a disorganised numpty or I can
write an agenda very quickly. I take the
second option. I draft a document
explaining how the meeting will explore diversity upstream of the profession,
at the gates to the profession and inside the profession. I allow time to discuss the use of cufflinks
and of loyal toasts and multiplexed cutlery systems. I also list the aims of the meeting, which
are basically to agree some stuff we can do to make the IP professions more
diverse, like having different colours of cufflinks and dispensing with the
fish course at ceremonial banquets.
It will be my job to chair the meeting, but I am not sure
how fierce I can be in the presence of a Lady IP Minister. I will definitely need a flip chart this
time.
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